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Thom's blog
The poor should not be political pawns
Florida Governor Rick Scott is using poor people in his state as pawns in his political game. Scott is one of a number of Republican Governors, who are using their grudge against President Obama to deny millions of low-income Americans health insurance coverage. As part of Obamacare – states are expected to expand their Medicaid coverage to cover more low-income Americans. And for the first few years – the federal government will pay for all the costs of this expansion – and after that will continue to pay for the vast majority of the coverage indefinitely.
All the states have to do is say, “Yes.” But Governor Scott, whose state has one of the highest uninsured rates in the nation, is saying, “No.” Not only is he saying, “No,” but he’s lying, too, claiming that Medicaid expansion will cost his state $26 billion over the next ten years. In reality – it will cost his state one billion – so he’s inflated the cost by 2,500%, just to justify his decision to screw poor, sick people in his state.
Several Republicans have a personal grudge against President Obama, and they want to do everything in their power to see that he fails. But condemning poor people in their states to untimely death due to lack of health insurance, as Rick Scott is doing, is downright appalling.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Should we 'give up on the Constitution?' (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Lone Liberal Rumble:- Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research  - Judson Phillips, TheTeaParty.net / Founder, Tea Party Nation
The Best of the Rest...
KBR-Guilty in Iraq Negligence- Mike Papantonio, Attorney, co-host, Ring of Fire Radio
Should we 'give up on the Constitution?'- Professor Louis Michael Seidman, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law-Georgetown University Law Center
Daily Take: Ma Biz/BabyBiz?
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Guns don't make a revolution, people do
Article: " 2nd Amendment". "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Corporate personhood in the carpool lane?- Jonathan Frieman,JD, non-profit consultant / Center for Corporate Policy
Hour Two: Could prayer be back in public schools?- Dan Gainor, T. Boone Pickens Fellow and Vice President of Business & Culture for the MRC
Clip: " Iraq sits on top of 10 percent of the world’s oil reserves, very significant reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia." Vice President Dick Cheney, Meet the Press, September 14, 2003. Article: " Rumi" by Wikipedia. Article: " Concerning the Militia" (Federalist 51) by James Madison. "If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
Hour Three: The unintended consequence of Obamacare...a nation of part-time workers?- Wendell Potter, Center for Public Integrity / Author, "Deadly Spin"
Article: " Zen" by Wikipedia (Soto, Rinzai).
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Should Senator Feinstein be tried for treason?- Alex Jones, Host-The Alex Jones Show
Hour Two: Should we ban plastic water bottles?- Brian Dunning, Science Writer / Host & Producer-Skeptoid
Hour Three: KBR - Guilty in Iraq Negligence- Mike Papantonio, Attorney, co-host, Ring of Fire Radio
Ma biz/baby biz...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Well have the latest on the Republicans' posturing over the coming debt ceiling battle and how the Congressional plan became one hostage crisis after another...
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Will Biden's meeting with the NRA solve anything?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
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Do Right-Wing Nuts Need Guns Against Government?
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Brummagemously Ugly!
Hell & High Water is Coming...Climate Change
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Big Picture Rumble - Guns...Shouldn't we take a lessons from autos?
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Full Show 1/8/13: The Founding Fathers Vs. The Gun Nuts
Tonight's politics panel discusses the GOP threat of shutting down the government over the debt ceiling, more companies cutting back on their employees' hours to side step Obamacare and Alex Jones' irrational actions and interpretation of the 2nd Amendment on "Piers Morgan Tonight." In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom details what our Founding Fathers intended with the 2nd amendment.
Thom Hartmann on the News - January 8, 2013
Will We Become a Nation of Part-Time Workers?
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There Are 1,000 Paths to God
We Don't Have Freedom FROM Religion
Gun Owner Won't sign "Save the Second Amendment" Petition
Riding The HOV Lane With a Corporation
The Founding Fathers vs. The Gun Nuts
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